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as in mouthful
a small piece or quantity of food
nuggets of beef in the chow mein fried chicken nuggets
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as in speck
a very small piece
a seemingly inconsequential nugget of information that proved to be the key to cracking the case
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Recent Examples of nugget
Browse souvenir shops selling Indigenous wood carvings, caribou fur, and gold nugget jewelry; check out the lively Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show; or learn about Indigenous art and traditions at the Totem Heritage Center.
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Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2025
Liv Morgan Liv Morgan returned in a backstage segment where Dominik Mysterio was getting ready to eat Roxane Perez’s chicken nuggets.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Expect the unexpected: Celebrities, McDonald's chicken nuggets, and grandmothers
The buzz around their parties on social media piqued the interest of M'tyma McNeal, 34, who went to a 9 AM Banger to celebrate her friend's birthday in April.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 24 May 2025
The bombshell revelation was a small nugget in The New York Times’ profile of Hudson, who has risen from champion cheerleading coach to being in a relationship with one of the most famous men in football of this generation.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2025
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Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2025
Liv Morgan Liv Morgan returned in a backstage segment where Dominik Mysterio was getting ready to eat Roxane Perez’s chicken nuggets.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Expect the unexpected: Celebrities, McDonald's chicken nuggets, and grandmothers
The buzz around their parties on social media piqued the interest of M'tyma McNeal, 34, who went to a 9 AM Banger to celebrate her friend's birthday in April.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 24 May 2025
The bombshell revelation was a small nugget in The New York Times’ profile of Hudson, who has risen from champion cheerleading coach to being in a relationship with one of the most famous men in football of this generation.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nugget
Noun
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The photo shows a happy Thomas with his Philly in his lap, and a mouthful of Angelo's.—
Savannah Leigh Richardson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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Miss Manners has seen people who want to talk through a mouthful of food cover their mouths like this, but not those trying to modulate their voices. Is lowering your volume just too obvious?—
Judith Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 May 2025
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The agreement takes a big chunk of oversight away from the NCAA and puts it in the hands of the four biggest conferences.—
Eddie Pells,
Baltimore Sun,
7 June 2025
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The two men clash but then go on to respect each other after Emma takes a chunk of a scalp from a nun, upchucks some weird-looking goo and then taunts/terrorizes those around her.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
6 June 2025
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Her path had been ambitiously charted to include a refuelling stop on Howland Island, a speck between Hawaii and Australia.—
Laurie Gwen Shapiro,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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When dishes air-dry, especially in a dishwasher or on a drying rack, the water evaporates, and these minerals remain on the surface, forming those unsightly white or grayish specks.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 June 2025
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What Davies has thus far brought to his second bite of the Who apple has proven … mixed.—
Glen Weldon,
NPR,
7 June 2025
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As stories of love, loss and migration unfold over small bites and careful sips, Bose paints a portrait of identity steeped in sensory memory.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
7 June 2025
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As Dorman, Arca’s chief investment officer, sees it, people buy things for three reasons: (1) future profits, like a cash-flowing business (2) utility, like a hunk of steel and (3) coolness, like a baseball card.—
Dan Alexander,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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This hunk of confetti cake from Butter+Blooms in Rogers was not too sweet, not too big and not expensive ($5).—
Worth Sparkman,
Axios,
19 May 2025
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From a headline view, the 139,000 gain in nonfarm payrolls provided a nice bit of relief for a market on edge over the direction of the economy and the impact that President Donald Trump’s tariffs might bring.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
6 June 2025
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From its cute-fake soundstage-town setting to the authoritative yet chummy voice-over narration (courtesy of Nick Offerman), The Life of Chuck works doggedly to give you the warm fuzzies—and a little bit of that fuzz goes a long way.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
6 June 2025
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From partying in a Nova Scotian kitchen to tasting Inuit cuisine while cruising the Northwest Passage, here are six ways to get a true taste of Canada.—
Renée Morrison,
AFAR Media,
5 June 2025
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The variant has similar symptoms to other strains, including fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, sore throat, congestion or a runny nose, new loss of taste or smell, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, nausea or vomiting.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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Existing clot-removal treatments typically involve inserting a device into the affected blood vessel via a catheter, then using that device to either suck up the fibrin clump or snare it then drag it out.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
7 June 2025
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With a fork, mash the banana in a separate small bowl until mostly smooth, leaving a few clumps.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 June 2025
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“Nugget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nugget. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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